Offsite Post: ‘Industrialism and the Breakup of the Family’

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson caused quite a stir earlier this year with his comments on the breakdown of the family in the united States, a problem for which he believes the Elite are showing too little care:

--https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-mitt-romney-supports-the-status-quo-but-for-everyone-else-its-infuriating

This brought forth a stream of reaction from various conservative commentators - National Review, American Family Association, etc.  A few examples:

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/10/18171912/tucker-carlson-fox-news-populism-conservatism-trump-gop

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/was-man-made-for-the-market/

https://afr.net/podcasts/exposing-washington/2019/january/neglect-from-those-in-washington/

https://www.christianpost.com/news/why-are-american-families-breaking-down-scholars-writers-debate-tucker-carlson-monologue.html

For ourselves, we would like to focus on one thing he said near the end:  ‘Any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system like that is the enemy of a healthy society’.

It is here that the lower classes Mr Carlson dotes on have been their own worst enemy.  They have cheered on the technological revolution in the hopes of attaining the much-ballyhooed American Dream of a higher standard of living.  In so doing, they have created the very economic system ‘that weakens and destroys families’, ‘that is the enemy of a healthy society’.  That economy is the industrial economy.

At this point, we will let another Carlson, Allan Carlson, have his say on the industrial economy and the capitalism that undergirds it:

I turn now to my remarks on the Industrial Revolution. To be sure, this event had sweeping effects on human life. Whether industrialization was pursued under the creed of Manchester liberalism, as in 19^th Century Britain, or under the creed of Stalinist Marxism in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, or under the new hybrid creed of Communistic-Capitalism now found in China, some of industrialism’s effects have proved to be universal.

The most important of these, and the one most often forgotten, has been the wrenching apart of the workplace from the place of residence. Prior to industrialization, the vast majority of people — well over 90 percent — lived and worked in the same location, be it a peasant or family farm, a fisherman’s cottage, a nomad’s tent, or an artisan’s shop. This unity of workplace and home formed the normal, even natural, human experience. Men and women, joined in marriage, worked together to make their small enterprises a success, sorting out tasks according to their strengths and skills; and so finding a natural complementarity. Children, too, commonly found useful places within these small home economies.

The Industrial Revolution — resting on centralized factories and offices — tore these productive homes apart. The men moved into certain factories; the women moved into others; and, in the early decades, so did the children as well, most working 10 to 12 hour days, six days a week. Economic historian Karl Polanyi calls this change “The Great Transformation.” Francis Fukuyama prefers “the Great Disruption.” Both phrases capture the huge effects on human relationships of this event.

Industrialization, by definition, also has meant the progressive displacement of the home economy. In pre-industrial societies, most homesteads sought and achieved some degrees of self-sufficiency. They raised, and preserved their own food – grains, vegetables, and meat animals. They spun their own cloth and sewed their basic garments. They built their own shelters and raised their own draft animals for field work and transportation. At their best, as on the freehold peasant or family farm, these self-sufficient home economies delivered an autonomy, or freedom, that analysts of liberty such as Thomas Jefferson would admire.

Industrial Production means replacing these products and tasks of a home economy by industrially made goods and services. As it turned out, there would be no end to the process. It usually began with factory-spun cloth and world proceed relentlessly until family households would be stripped of virtually all productive functions, including in the end infant care and meal preparation (in our terms think “daycare” and “fast food”).

Again, these effects are common to all industrial orders, be they of the classical liberal variety or of one of the socialist models. The conservative remembers that the gift of industrialization — a great array of commodities — has been accompanied by these large social costs.

 . . .

Fifth, capitalism undermines natural human bonds and wages a relentless war against tradition. Economist Joseph Schumpeter viewed capitalism as an evolutionary system, one full of nervous energy, one that could leave nothing untouched and changed. This was and is the process of “Creative Destruction,” — his phrase — which “incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” [Capitalism, Socialism & Democracy]

Capitalism also excels in leveling natural institutions — most notably, the family itself. Writing in the 1930s, Schumpeter could point to data showing that marriage, family life, and parenthood meant ever less to men and women. Tumbling martial birthrates and “the proportion of marriage that produce no children or only one child” were the clearest signs of this revolution in values. This revolution derived, he said, from capitalism’s “rationalization of everything in life,” the embrace by persons in the capitalist era of an “inarticulate system of cost accounting” that exposed “the heavy personal sacrifices that family ties and especially parenthood entail under modern conditions.” This sharp decline in a desire for children left already functionless homes with even less value.

--http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2013/07/economic-smackdown-porchers-vs-austrians/

But what is the alternative?  Mr A. Carlson answers with some words from the conservative economist Wilhelm Roepke:

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The rest is at https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/industrialism-and-breakup-family .

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

Remembrances for December

Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed.

Dec. 6^th

Jefferson Davis, he had the difficult task of leading the South during the War, and was unjustly tortured by his Yankee captors for two years after the ordeal had ended.  Interestingly, his death occurred on the feast day of one of the Church’s most beloved saints, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (the same St Nicholas associated with the Christmas season).  There have been a number of times when St Nicholas has miraculously interceded on behalf of those wrongfully accused; perhaps we will find in the Eternal Day that there was some connection between St Nicholas and Pres Davis during his imprisonment.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/clyde-wilson-library/a-sacrifice-for-his-people-the-imprisonment-of-jefferson-davis/

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/12/06/103484-saint-nicholas-the-wonderworker-archbishop-of-myra-in-lycia

Dec. 12^th

Andrew Lytle, one of the great men of the South of any age.

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/andrew-nelson-lytle/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86282498/andrew-nelson-lytle

Dec. 24^th

Charlotte ‘Lottie’ Moon, the self-sacrificing Virginia missionary to China.

http://cgbcbelton.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lottie-moon1.pdf

http://bpnews.net/53987/chinese-government-designates-lottie-moons-church-as-historical-site

Many thanks.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

A Regrettable Holiday

Thanksgiving Day in the [u]nited States always brings forth a stream of sweet-sounding words about ‘America’s Puritan Fathers’ from many Evangelical Protestants.  But there are a number of problems with their accounts of the Puritans in American history.

First, these histories show the hubris of their American Supremacist writers with their assertion that New England Puritan culture is superior to all other cultures in North America.  They usually never speak of the cultures of the other regions of North America, whether the Quakers or Dutch of the Middle Atlantic, the English cavaliers of the South, or the Celts, Africans, French, Spanish, Scandinavian, and others, some of whom predated the arrival of the Puritans by a number of years.  And when they do acknowledge these other cultures, it is always to show how much better Yankee/Puritan culture is than theirs, how grateful we should be that the cultural genocide of the Yankees has succeeded in stamping out these unworthy, unchosen, unclean competitors.

And this leads to another very dark problem, that God (which ‘God’?) has set Puritan-Yankee ‘America’ aside for a choice and special mission, to evangelize the world with the gospel (what ‘gospel’?).  The question arises:  Which servant of God anointed them for this task?  From the mouth of which prophet, bishop, priest, or other holy man or woman came forth the words declaring them God’s chosen people, the most Christian of Christians?  The anointing, the declaration, came forth from their own lips.  And we see clearly enough from Holy Scripture what the Lord God the Holy Trinity thinks of those who consecrate themselves for certain tasks without His blessing:

But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

--Deut. 18:20

Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD. So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

--Jeremiah 28:15-7

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

--II Cor. 11:13-5

American Supremacists are greatly deluded in thinking that they are God’s special vineyard, meant to spread the gospel of individualism, capitalism, and hierarchy-destroying doctrines of egalitarian constitutionalism around the world.  By pridefully standing on such un-Christian claims and doctrines, they are ensuring that they will undergo a sorrowful end just as other rebellious peoples have.

Speaking of which, Yankee Americans are especially boastful of their capitalist economic system.  Capitalism is the economic system advocated by the Bible, we often hear from them.  Mr Bryan Fischer, an outspoken Protestant Evangelical and defender of Yankee America, expounded at length today (26 Nov. 2019) on Focal Point that the Pilgrims under Gov Bradford in New England were the most virtuous men of all the Earth, and yet they couldn’t make socialism work.  Here again we see Yankee pride on display.  They have never considered the monastic economy, which is a highly centralized and planned economy under the direction of the abbot (we will note only in passing that the Southern plantation economy mirrored this system in crucial ways).  St Benedict of Nursia (+547) in his Rule for monastics (which has proven itself more durable and stable within and beneficial to the world in its 1,400 and more years of existence than anything on offer from Yankeedom) orders the following:

1 The goods of the monastery, that is, its tools, clothing or anything else, should be entrusted to brothers whom the abbot appoints and in whose manner of life he has confidence. 2 He will, as he sees fit, issue to them the various articles to be cared for and collected after use. 3 The abbot will maintain a list of these, so that when the brothers succeed one another in their assigned tasks, he may be aware of what he hands out and what he receives back. 4 Whoever fails to keep the things belonging to the monastery clean or treats them carelessly should be reproved, 5 If he does not amend, let him be subjected to the discipline of the rule.

1 Above all, this evil practice must be uprooted and removed from the monastery. 2 We mean that without an order from the abbot, no one may presume to give, receive 3 or retain anything as his own, nothing at all–not a book, writing tablets or stylus–in short, not a single item, 4 especially since monks may not have the free disposal even of their own bodies and wills. 5 For their needs, they are to look to the father of the monastery, and are not allowed anything which the abbot has not given or permitted. 6 All things should be the common possession of all, as it is written, so that no one presumes to call anything his own (Acts 4:32). 7 But if anyone is caught indulging in this most evil practice, he should be warned a first and a second time. 8 If he does not amend, let him be subjected to punishment.

1 It is written: Distribution was made to each one as he had need (Acts 4:35). 2 By this we do not imply that there should be favoritism–God forbid–but rather consideration for weaknesses, 3 Whoever needs less should thank God and not be distressed, 4 but whoever needs more should feel humble because of his weakness, not self-important because of the kindness shown him. 5 In this way all the members will be at peace. 6 First and foremost, there must be no word or sign of the evil of grumbling, no manifestation of it for any reason at all. 7 If, however, anyone is caught grumbling, let him undergo more severe discipline.

--Chapters 32-4

This sort of Church socialism, if you will, actually does work well in some contexts, i.e., where Christian virtues are present in a high degree such as humility, obedience, love, and self-sacrifice (see, e.g., Acts 4, as noted just now in the Rule).  This is very much the opposite of what one finds in the various anti-Christian national socialisms of the French and Russian Revolutions, the Nazis, and so forth, which are motivated by envy and hatred of particular individuals or groups of people.  In them, the oppressive hand of the government must act as the restrainer of the brutality of the people, while in Yankee capitalism, competition serves this purpose of regulator/restrainer.  Within the Christian monastery, however, the mild word of the abbot is enough to guide the monks (likewise for the pastor and his parish).

Atheistic socialism/communism is obviously nothing to crow about.  But, when contrasted with the Church’s kind of economic solidarity or socialism, contrary to Yankee claims, neither is capitalism.  Its rough and tumble competition is not ennobling; it debases men who live under its sway.

Furthermore, the Law and the Prophets, which Christ upheld, are full of commands that require property owners to give part of their wealth to the poor, fatherless, widows, etc.  To try to turn the Bible into a proof-text for either pure capitalism (per the Yankee American Supremacists) or pure socialism is a grievous error.

Howsobeit, the fact that the Benedictines and other monastics have succeeded for generations at living Christian socialism (as well as the Southern plantations while they were allowed to exist; recall that some Southerners saw in their form of domestic slavery the fulfilment of the virtues the atheistic socialists of Europe were grasping for - protection of the poor, weak, etc.  See, e.g., Fitzhugh, p. 72.) while the New England Puritans failed at it after only a handful of years is simply more evidence that Yankee America is not the most exalted expression of Christianity the world has ever known, as its apologists like Misters Fischer, David Barton, Tony Perkins, and others are often telling us.

And like the false teachers mentioned above, the doctrines Yankee America spreads across the world do not fulfil their promises, whether for peace or prosperity or freedom.  What have the Native American, the Afghani, the Yemeni, the Serbian, the Nicaraguan, the Iraqi, the Japanese, the Ukrainian, and others received from the Yankee Empire but dislocation, destruction of tradition, war, death, servant status to Washington City, and other upheavals?

The various cultural regions of the [u]nited States, much less all of North America or the world at large, do not belong to the Puritan Yankees.  If Evangelicals and others admire Puritan culture, let them move to Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the other places where it originally put down roots.  But they ought to leave the rest of the cultures of the world alone to flourish along the lines that they choose for themselves.  Such a turn of events would indeed be worthy of a Thanksgiving celebration.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

Happy Feast! - for the Saints of November

Celebrating some of the saints from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands:

Africa:

9^th – St John the Dwarf, one of the great Desert Fathers, a wonderful example of obedience and humility

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/09/103258-venerable-john-the-short-of-egypt

11^th – St Menas, soldier and martyr in Egypt; he worked a miracle that proved decisive in World War II

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/11/103277-martyr-menas-of-egypt

https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/11/miracle-of-saint-menas-in-el-alamein-in.html

17^th – St Longinus of Egypt, an humble and wise Desert Father

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/November/17-05.htm

24^th – St Peter of Alexandria, the bishop who excommunicated the arch-heretic Arius; he was the last bishop of Alexandria to suffer martyrdom under the heathen Roman emperors

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/25/103394-hieromartyr-peter-archbishop-of-alexandria

25^th – St Catherine of Alexandria, a most illustrious and wise confessor and martyr

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/24/103382-great-martyr-catherine-of-alexandria

29^th – St Pitirim, another of the great Desert Fathers and a disciple of St Anthony the Great

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/November/29-06.htm

30^th – St Frumentius, first bishop of Ethiopia

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/30/103451-saint-frumentius-archbishop-of-abyssinia-ethiopia

Africa/Italy:

1^st – St Caesarius of North Africa, martyred for trying to stop an evil pagan festival that involved suicide; his fellow martyr was St Lucius.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/012.html

Belgium:

3^rd – St Hubert of Maestricht and Liege, a zealous hunter in his secular life, later a wonderful bishop who endured wrongs patiently, showed mercy to the poor, battled idolatry in the Ardennes, and worked many miracles

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/032.html

23^rd – St Trond, a nobleman who became a preacher and monastic founder and helped free parts of Belgium from idolatry

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/233.html

England:

3^rd – St Rumwald, a three-day old infant and prince, who professed the Faith immediately after baptism and then died.  His veneration spread quite far in Europe.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1103c.html

4^th – St Beornstan, a tender-hearted bishop of Winchester

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1104b.html

10^th – St Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury, a faithful pastor over England

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/103.html

16^th – St Alfric, Archbishop of Canterbury during the trying times of the Danish invasions

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

17^th – St Hilda of Whitby, she is called ‘the Mother of All England’, one of the greatest saints of the English

http://orthochristian.com/75450.html

19^th – St Ermenburgh, Queen of Mercia, foundress of the important monastery of Minster-in-Thanet in Kent, where she later served as abbess and then lived as a simple nun

http://orthochristian.com/80901.html

20^th – St Edmund, King of East Anglia, martyred viciously by the Danes; he is England’s original Patron Saint

http://orthochristian.com/88422.html

http://orthochristian.com/43308.html

England/France:

4^th – St Clarus (Clair), born in Rochester in England, he went to France, where he lived as a hermit near Rouen. He was murdered in the village of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte where he lived and which is named after him. His relics are venerated there to this day.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/044.html

England/Germany:

7^th – St Willibrord (Clement), one of the great enlighteners of the German lands, the Apostle of Frisia especially

Shorter version

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/November/07-07.htm

Longer version

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/071.html

8^th – St Werenfrid, another English missionary who worked among the Germans

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/072.html

8^th – St Willehad, Bishop of Bremen, honored as the Apostle of Saxony

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/082.html

12^th – St Liafwin, another who labored for the salvation of the Germanic peoples

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/124.html

France:

1^st – St Austremonius, enlightener of Auvergne

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/016.html

1^st – St Benignus, enlightener of Burgundy and a martyr

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/015.html

1^st – St Marcellus, a great bishop of Paris

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/014.html

3^rd – St Flour (Florus), an apostle of Languedoc

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/035.html

3^rd – St Papoul, a preacher and martyr in Languedoc

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/034.html

5^th – St Bertille of Chelles, a remarkable abbess whose virtues kept a monastery that included former queens and princesses in a state of humility, peace, and striving after God

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/051.html

6^th – St Leonard, a nobleman who became a hermit, abbot, preacher, and liberator of captives; this remarkable Saint was greatly venerated across France and England

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/061.html

7^th – St Tremorus, the infant son of St Triphina, he was murdered in Carhaix in Brittany by his stepfather, Count Conmore. He is the patron saint of Carhaix.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

11^th – St Martin the Merciful of Tours, one of the greatest saints of the West; he is intertwined deeply in Louisiana’s history

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/11/103285-saint-martin-the-merciful-bishop-of-tours

https://www.petitions.net/proclaim_st_martin_of_tours_louisianas_patron_saint

13^th – St Mitrius, a martyr and patron saint of Aix en Provence

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/134.html

13^th – St Brice, a successor of St Martin of Tours as bishop of that diocese, he first had to conquer his pride and sloth

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/135.html

15^th – St Eugene, one of the early missionaries to France who was martyred with St Denis of Paris

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/153.html

16^th – St Eucherius of Lyons, one of the finest adornments of the French Church

https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2017/11/saint-eucherius-bishop-of-lyon-449.html

17^th – St Aignan of Orleans, a great pastor and protector of his flock

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/175.html

17^th – St Gregory of Tours, from a family of saints, a wonderful bishop, historian, and wonderworker

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/173.html

For links to his works, scroll near the end of this page:

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Gregory_of_Tours

20^th – St Silvester, bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône in France from c 484 to c 525. St Gregory of Tours describes him as 'the glory of confessors'.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

26^th – St Basolus (Basle), born in Limoges in France, he became a monk at Verzy near Rheims, and then a hermit, living for forty years on a hill near the city. He was celebrated as a wonderworker.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

27^th – St Maximus, Bishop of Riez, he gave away his inheritance and became a wise and wonderworking monk, abbot, and bishop

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/271.html

29^th – St Saturninus of Toulouse, a holy and wonderworking bishop who opposed the heathen gods and died a martyr, being dragged behind a bull until he died

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/291.html

France/England:

13^th – St Abbo, born near Orleans in France, he became a monk at Fleury (St Benoît-sur-Loire). Invited by St Oswald of Worcester to take charge of the monastery of Ramsey in England, he stayed there for two years (985-7) and wrote the Life of St Edmund. He then became Abbot of Fleury 988. He was martyred in La Réole in Gascony

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

France/Wales:

1^st – St Cadfan, an enlightener of Wales

http://orthochristian.com/98598.html

Ireland:

9^th – St Benignus (Benen), 'Benen, son of Sessenen, St Patrick's Psalmsinger'. A favourite disciple of St Patrick, whom he succeeded as the main bishop in Ireland. He preached mainly in Clare and Kerry and founded a monastery in Drumlease.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

10^th – St Aedh MacBricc, monastic, bishop, and wonderworker

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1110a.html

12^th – St Sinell, one of the 12 Apostles of Ireland

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1112e.html

12^th – St Cumian Fada, a king’s son, he became a monk, teacher, and monastic founder

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1112b.html

15^th – St Fintan, his journeys touched nearly all of Western Europe

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1115b.html

24^th – St Colman, the patron saint of Cloyne; he was a royal bard before becoming a monk and preacher; he was baptized by St Brendan the Voyager

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1124a.html

24^th – St Kenan, a great evangelist in Ireland

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/244.html

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1124b.html

27^th – St Sechnall (Secundinus), a disciple of St Patrick. In 433 he became the first Bishop of Dunsauglin in Meath in Ireland and later served in Armagh. He wrote the earliest poem of the Irish Church - an alphabetical hymn in honour of St Patrick.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

St Sechnall’s hymn is translated here:

http://www.stpatricksday.com/spdc_content/saint-patrick/st-patricks-writings/the-hymn-of-st-patrick/

29^th – St Brendan of Birr, one of the 12 Apostles of Ireland and a close friend of St Columba of Iona

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1129a.html

Ireland/Austria:

27^th – St Virgilius (Fergal), an Irishman who brought the light of the Gospel to Bavaria and especially Austria, where he is venerated as the Apostle of Carinthia

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/274.html

Ireland/Belgium:

12^th – St Livin, an Irish bishop (and poet) who preached among the heathen of Flanders and was martyred together with others

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/123.html

Ireland/Belgium/France:

20^th – St Autbodus, born in Ireland, he preached in Artois, Hainault and Picardy in the north of France and Belgium. He reposed as a hermit near Laon.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

Ireland/France:

13^th – St Kilian, an enlightener of Artois

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/137.html

14^th – St Saens, an Irish monk and abbot in northern France

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1114c.html

20^th – St Maxentia, an Irish noble lady who lived as a hermit in the north of France and was murdered there

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/205.html

Ireland/France/Switzerland/Italy:

23^rd – St Columbanus, a beautiful light adorning the West; his prayers, poems, miracles, and monasteries helped establish Christianity in Western Europe.

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columban.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbanus#/media/File:Bobbio-abbazia_di_san_colombano-cripta3.jpg

Ireland/Scotland:

8^th – St Gervat, left Ireland and lived as a holy hermit at Elgin

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1108b.html

12^th – St Machar of Aberdeen, one of the earliest evangelizers of Scotland; his work bore much fruit

http://orthochristian.com/99531.html

13^th – St Denick of Caithness, a fellow-worker of St Machar and St Columba in evangelizing Scotland

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1113d.html

19^th – St Medana, a holy virgin from Ireland who went to Scotland and lived in Galloway

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

27^th – St Fergus, an Irishman who preached among the Picts

http://orthochristian.com/99531.html

New Rome:

14^th – St Justinian the Great, Emperor; Christian civilization, from Europe, to Africa, to Asia, flourished under his rule

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/14/103301-saint-justinian-the-emperor

Old Rome:

1^st – St Mary, a slave in a Senator’s family, tormented for her faith in Christ

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/013.html

5^th – Sts Galaction and Epistime, a husband and wife who were martyred together

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/05/103176-martyrs-galaction-and-his-wife-epistemis-at-emesa

4^th – Sts Vitalis and Agricola, a slave and his master, martyred in Bologna; the steadfastness of the slave Vitalis in his death encouraged his master in his martyrdom

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/042.html

7^th – Four Crowned Martyrs, two pairs:  one of officials who spoke out against worshipping idols; another who refused to carve idols

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/081.html

18^th – Dedication of the Churches of the Chiefs of the Apostles, Sts Peter and Paul, in Rome by the Holy Emperor St Constantine the Great, 4^th century

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/181.html

22^nd – St Cecilia and those martyred with her; St Cecilia was of noble lineage but gave up all for Christ.  She is a patroness of church music in the West.  The fervor and dedication of her and her fellow martyrs is remarkable.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/22/103365-martyrs-cecilia-valerian-tiburtius-and-maximus-at-rome

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

24^th – St Clement, bishop of Rome, a disciple of the Holy Apostle Peter; he converted many souls in Rome and Crimea (where he was exiled); he was martyred in Crimea where God worked many wonders through his holy relics

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2019/11/25/103393-hieromartyr-clement-pope-of-rome

Scotland:

2^nd – Sts Baya and Maura, anchoresses in Scotland, St Baya guided St Maura and the latter became abbess of a convent.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

8th – St Moroc, a much venerated bishop of Dunblane

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1108c.html

30^th – St Andrew the Holy Apostle, Patron Saint of Scotland, close to 800 churches were dedicated to St Andrew in Scotland in the Middle Ages.  The X-shaped Cross of St Andrew is the inspiration for the familiar Southern battle flag.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/november.html

http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/oe4/the-holy-isles-four-national-saints/

See the footnote here for how St Andrew’s relics came to Scotland:

http://orthochristian.com/98004.html

The missionary journeys of St Andrew:

http://www.roadtoemmaus.net/back_issue_articles/RTE_19/The_Astonishing_Missionary_Journeys.pdf

Scotland/Wales:

9^th – St Pabo, after life as a soldier in Scotland, he came to Wales and in Anglesey founded the monastery later called Llanbabon after him.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

Spain:

3^rd – Martyrs of Sarragosa, (+304 A.D.), an exceedingly large number of martyrs put to death in Saragossa under Diocletian by the savage prefect Dacian, who had been sent to Spain to enforce the decrees. He published an edict exiling all Orthodox from the city, and while they were leaving he ordered the soldiers to fall upon and massacre them. Eighteen of them are honoured separately on April 16.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

13^th – St Eugene I of Toledo, a Spanish Goth, born in Toledo in Spain. He became a monk at St Engracia in Saragossa. Finally, in 646, he became Bishop of Toledo. He was a gifted poet and musician and zealous for the beauty of the liturgy

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

17^th – Sts Acisclus and Victoria, brother and sister, they were born in Cordoba in Spain and were martyred, probably under Diocletian. Their home was turned into a church. They are the main patron-saints of Cordoba and were venerated throughout Spain and the south of France.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

24^th – Sts Flora and Mary, martyrs during the rule of the Muslims

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/243.html

Spain/Africa:

13^th – Arcadius, Paschasius, Probus, Eutychian and Paulillus, all of these were born in Spain and exiled to Africa by the Vandal Arian King Genseric, where they became the Protomartyrs of the Vandal persecution. Paulillus was only a boy, the little brother of Sts Paschasius and Eutychian

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

Switzerland:

16^th – St Othmar, a wise and holy abbot of St Gall Monastery who raised it to great heights of accomplishment; he would later die at the hands of persecutors

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

Wales:

3^rd – St Gwyddfarch, hermit of Moel yr Ancr (the bald hill of the anchorite), one of the many monks and nuns of the West who sanctified their lands by their holy lives and prayers

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1103h.html

3^rd – St Winifred, a maiden martyred by a carnally minded prince, whose holy well still attracts many pilgrims and grants cures

http://orthochristian.com/42777.html

6^th – St Illtyd, one of the greatest saints of Wales; he was learned in all sorts of knowledge, and founded monasteries, churches, and schools all across Wales

http://orthochristian.com/87874.html

8^th – St Tysilio, prince and abbot, founder of several churches

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1108d.html

10^th – St Elaeth the King, a Briton driven into Wales by the Picts. He became a monk with St Seiriol in Anglesey in Wales. Some of his poems still exist.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

12^th – St Cadwaladr, a holy king of the Welsh, the last Welshman to rule the island of Britain before the English rose to power

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1112a.html

23^rd – St Daniel of Bangor, a well-loved bishop of that place

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/234.html

Wales/Cornwall/France:

18^th – St Maudez, born in Wales, he lived as a hermit near Falmouth in Cornwall, where a village is named after him. Later he went to Brittany where he is known as St Maudez and where many churches are dedicated to him.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

Wales/England:

3^rd – St Clether, born in Wales, he was a hermit in Herefordshire, now in England. The village of Clodock is named after him.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1104a.html

7^th – St Congar, he helped people Wales and England with monastics

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdnov.htm

8^th – St Cybi, during his life he was a pilgrim, for a short time a king, a priest, an abbot, a bishop, a hermit and a preacher.

http://orthochristian.com/75292.html

14^th – St Dyfrig, he filled parts of Wales and England with holy monasteries

http://orthochristian.com/88127.html

Wales/France:

15^th – St Malo, first bishop of Aleth in Brittany

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1115a.html

30^th – St Tudwal, a great evangelizer of Brittany in France; one of the Seven Patron Saints of Brittany

http://celticsaints.org/2019/1130a.html

Wales/France/Belgium:

6^th – St Winoc, a royal prince of Welsh blood who became a monk in Brittany and then a missionary leader in Flanders, helping to found and lead a monastery there which held a hospital for the poor whom he served with his own hands; an humble man who loved to serve others, and a wonderworker

https://www.bartleby.com/210/11/062.html

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Anathema to the Union!